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Missing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Features

2009-09-21T12:45:00.000+10:00

Missing Collaboration Features

· Social Networking Web Part
Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your organization, communities, and electronic communications in Public My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests.

Missing Enterprise portal Features

· My Site personal site
The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate information “for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant enhancements include social networking, privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents Aggregation Web Parts, and Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts.

· Content syndication
Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site.

· Privacy and security
Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view.

· Site Directory
The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content.

· User Profiles and the Profile Store
User Profiles store personal information for system users. Improvements include multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy from Office SharePoint Server 2007, property-level security controls by person or group, open and closed vocabularies, and per-site property extensions. Profile synchronization and directory import support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance.

· Audience targeting
Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences.

· Site Manager
Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.

· Portal site templates
Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Web sites.

· SharePoint Sites and Documents Aggregation Web Parts
List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the user has authored. The Documents Aggregation Web Part also supports more general capabilities for querying and filtering the documents stored in a collection of SharePoint sites.

· Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts
List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups.

Missing Enterprise Search Features

· Enterprise content sources
Searches over 200 file types in many enterprise content sources, including files shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out-of –the-box with the ability to extend to additional third party repositories and file types through the use of Protocol Handlers and iFilters.

· Relevance
New and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content along with the use of relevance and ranking factors such as click distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction yield the best results for enterprise content.

· Administration and management
Improved administration user interfaces and admin application programming interface (API) provides broad support for various search and indexing scenarios, central controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for management and reporting.

· Indexing controls
Granular indexing controls for easy inclusion and exclusion of searched content as well as immediate result removal of any site or item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh. Improved crawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per content source; and a new browse able, filterable index log provide necessary information to optimize search.

· Security
Administrator permissions no longer required by crawler. Access control list (ACL) and ACL-only crawls index content permissions for compliance, privacy, and protection of intellectual property (IP). Security-trimmed search results only allow users to see content they are allowed to access.

· People search
People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.

· Business data search
Search data residing in your line-of-business applications using the Business Data Catalog. Structured content sources and line-of-business application data and reports accessible through Web services or ADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data Catalog as search results or into a SharePoint list.

Missing Enterprise Content Management Features

· Business document workflow support

Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications.

o Approval

o Collect Feedback

o Collect Signatures

o Disposition Approval

· Document management site templates

o The Managed Document Library site template defines large-scale document management sites.

o The Divisional Library site template includes managed document libraries, dashboards, KPIs, and other reporting tools.

o The Translation Library site template helps organizations manage multiple translations of a document.

· Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM)
Helps ensure that access rights applied to Microsoft Office documents in a central library travel with the documents, even when they are downloaded from the library.

· Document Action Bar
Describes to users what business policy or workflow governs the current document and what action they are expected to take.

· Retention and auditing policies
Define customized information management policies to control retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings.

· Records repository
Helps ensure the integrity of the files stored in the repository, and supports information management policies that consistently and uniformly enforce auditing, and expiration of records.

· E-mail content as records
Provides consistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail content across Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007.

· Legal holds
Makes it possible for records to be searched and placed on hold during litigation discovery to override the retention schedule of the records.

· Navigation controls
Out-of-the box navigation controls that can be easily customized by end users.

· Content authoring
Provides the ability for information workers to create content rich Web pages using a Web browser.

· Content publishing and deployment
Built in approval workflow allows Web content to be sent for approval prior to publishing. Content deployment to production sites can be scheduled by setting up jobs and a "live" time period for each page can be specified within which that page is viewable.

· Page Layouts
Page Layouts simplify content authoring and publishing — site administrators define a structure that guides authors through the publishing process; content contributors focus on doing their jobs rather than on the details of publishing and deployment. Flexible Page Layouts also allow designers to mix and match ASP.NET applications, Web Parts, and Authoring Templates in any configuration to create customized sites to meet specific business needs.

· Site variations
A new feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007, sites can be linked together in a parent-child type of relationship providing a one-way orchestration framework for Web content. This feature allow organizations to deploy multi-lingual publishing sites in a much more structured and manageable environment.

· WYSIWYG Web content editor
Extends the SharePoint user interface with additional commands and status indicators for in-context Web page authoring.

· Slide libraries
The repository features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide the platform support for slide libraries, a feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Slide libraries enable the storage of individual slides in a SharePoint site. Office PowerPoint 2007 slide decks can be automatically created from a selection of slides in a slide library.

· Policies, auditing, and compliance

· Repositories in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 support the following policy, auditing, and compliance features. However, the features denoted with an asterisk are activated only upon the installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007.

o Document retention and expiration policies

o Highly customizable policies

o Workflow process to define expiration

o Access control and security

o IRM policies applied on download to secure the functional access to documents

o Tracking and auditing

o Logging of all actions on sites, content, and workflows

o Official document-of-record repositories

o Site for storing or archiving enterprise approved content types

Missing Forms-driven Business Processes Features

· Browser-based forms
Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services available in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it possible to design Web-capable forms in Office InfoPath 2007 and distribute them on corporate intranets, extranets, or the Internet. Users can fill out forms in a browser or HTML-enabled mobile device with no download or client components needed.

· Centralized forms management and control
Office InfoPath Forms Services provide a administrator controlled centralized form solution catalog that makes it easy for users to find a form and minimize form solution downtime when upgrades are necessary. It also provides administrators with the tools to manage form solution security and accessibility.

· “Design once” development model
Forms designers can design their forms once and deploy them for use both within the rich Office InfoPath 2007 client program and through a Web browser. Office Forms Server 2007 automatically converts the form into ASP.NET Web forms, with no additional work from the designer.

· Form Import Wizard
The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to convert forms designed in Office Excel and Office Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form Import Wizard handles the conversion of form fields, repeating tables, rich text boxes, and other elements, dynamically generating the underlying XML structure for the new form.

· Integrated deployment model for “no-code” forms
The Publish Wizard in Office InfoPath 2007 makes it easy to publish forms that do not have any managed code components to a Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form available as a browser-based form at the same time.

· Compatibility Checker
The Compatibility Checker helps forms designers validate those features that need to work across the broadest range of Web browsers.

Missing Business Intelligence Features

· Integrated, flexible spreadsheet publishing
Office Excel 2007 provides an integrated publishing experience that lets information workers easily choose what they want to share with others and determine how others can interact with published spreadsheets.

· Share, manage, and control spreadsheets
Share business data broadly while maintaining control and helping to protect sensitive information. Provides access to spreadsheet data and analysis through server-calculated, interactive Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one centralized version of the truth while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents, such as financial models, by limiting access to portions of the spreadsheet and auditing their usage.

· Web-based business intelligence using Excel Services
Excel Services empowers spreadsheet authors to easily and broadly share spreadsheets that use the new business intelligence (BI) functionality through the browser. Fully interactive, data-bound spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views can be created as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard, without requiring any development.

· Data Connection Libraries
Data Connection Libraries are centralized SharePoint document libraries that store Office Data Connections (ODC); ODCs describe connections to external data. Centralizing Office Data Connections makes it easier to share, manage, and discover data connections that can be used by any Microsoft Office program.

· Business Data Catalog
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) tightly integrates external data into the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user experience, providing access to external data residing within backed line-of-business applications, and enabling the display of and interaction with external data through a set of Business Data Web Parts.

· Business Data Web Parts
Use SharePoint Business Data Web Parts for viewing lists, entities, and related information retrieved through the Business Data Catalog.

· Business Data actions
With no custom coding, easily create actions that open Web pages, display the user interfaces of line-of-business applications, launch InfoPath forms, and perform other common tasks. Use the convenient links that appear beside business objects returned from the Business Data Catalog.

· Integrated business intelligence dashboards
Create rich, interactive BI dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built-in Web parts such as dynamic KPIs, Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports, or a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts that can visualize information residing in back end line-of-business applications.

· Report Center
An out-of-the-box site optimized for report access and management, including a report library, data connection library, and a dashboard template. These sites, hosted by the new Report Center, provide consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connections.

· Key performance indicators
KPIs communicate goals and status to drive results. Using the KPI Web Part, a user can create a KPI list within a Web Part page, without writing code. The KPI Web Part can display KPIs from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, or manually entered data.

· Filter Web Parts
Filters enable dashboards to be personalized by communicating shared parameters among Web Parts on a dashboard. The parameters passed can be automatically applied based on user profiles, SharePoint lists, the BDC, manually entered information, and so forth.

Missing Platform Features

· Notification service
Extensible platform sends customizable e-mail alerts to users. Users participating in a workflow automatically receive e-mail alerts without subscribing in advance. Improved filtering conditions now trigger more relevant alerts to all users.

· Single Sign-On (SSO)
Permits a person to enter one name and password to use a variety of back-end applications. SSO is used for integrating back-office systems and line-of-business applications that require separate credentials databases. Take advantage of single sign on to authenticate users and leverage this to pre-populate InfoPath forms.

· Interoperability and integration

o WSRP

· Extensibility and programmability of search
Includes three categories of APIs for comprehensive access to Microsoft Search features:

· Data access: protocol handlers and IFilters

· Query object model, APIs, Web services, and reusable Search Center Web Parts

· Administration object model and APIs

· Excel spreadsheet developer reuse and extensibility
Spreadsheets published to SharePoint sites are accessible more securely using Web services. This means that application developers can take advantage of the logic embedded in a spreadsheet by remotely accessing spreadsheets from any platform. Business analysts can modify or update the model without affecting the business application or having to involve an application developer in the process.

REMOTELY ENABLE REMOTE DESKTOP

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1. REGEDIT

2. CONNECT TO REMOTE REGISTRY

3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

4. DOUBLE CLICK fDenyTSConnection.

5. CHANGE from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled)

6.      shutdown -m \\remotemachine -r

Solution Selling

2009-08-20T14:53:00.000+10:00

Solution selling is a special approach to sales. Rather than just promoting an existing product, the salesperson focuses on the customer's pain(s) and addresses the issue with his or her offerings (product and services). The resolution of the pain is what constitutes a true "solution".

This precise definition is a very accurate one when considering how Keith M. Eades, author of The New Solution Selling, defines a solution. In his book, he is quoted as saying:

"So what is the definition of the word solution? The typical response is, "An answer to a problem." I agree with this response but feel it's important to expand the definition. Not only does the problem need to be acknowledged by the buyer, but both the buyer and salesperson must also agree on the answer. So a solution is a mutually agreed-upon answer to a recognized problem. In addition, a solution must also provide some measurable improvement. By measurable improvement, I mean there is a before and an after. Now we have a more complete definition of a solution; It's a mutually shared answer to a recognized problem, and the answer provides measurable improvement."

Origin of Solution Selling

Solution Selling came about as a result of extensive research conducted in the early 1980s around buying and selling behavior. This research provided the ground work for development of a series of consultative methods that gave way to the first Solution Selling training offering.

One who espouses a "solution-selling" philosophy should be viewed in a different light than the traditional, "slick, snake-oil, peddling" salesman.

A "solution-selling" sales professional generally applies a consultative sales approach to all aspects of their sales process (or during a sales cycle) including the following:

• Prospecting

• Diagnosing customer needs

• Crafting a potential solution

• Establishing value

• Bargaining for access to decision-makers

• Positioning proof, ROI and the total solution

• Negotiating a win-win

• Following up to ensure customer success

The Solution Selling methodology (and training offering) continues to evolve as key components of professional selling evolve. As a result, Solution Selling has become more broadly defined - to include dimensions of "sales process "; "competitive selling"; "value selling" as well as "consultative selling".

Sales

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A sale is the pinnacle activity involved in selling products or services in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity.

A sale is completed by the seller, the owner of the goods. It starts with consent (or agreement) to an acquisition or appropriation or request followed by the passing of title (property or ownership) in the item and the application and due settlement of a price, the obligation for which arises due to the seller's requirement to pass ownership, being a price the seller is happy to part with ownership of or any claim upon the item. The purchaser, though a party to the sale, does not execute the sale, only the seller does that. To be precise the sale completes prior to the payment and gives rise to the obligation of payment. If the seller completes the first two above stages (consent and passing ownership) of the sale prior to settlement of the price, the sale is still valid and gives rise to an obligation to pay.

Sales techniques

1. Direct sales, involving person to person contact

2. Buying Facilitation Method

3. Pro forma sales

4. Agency-based

5. Sales agents (real estate, manufacturing)

6. Sales outsourcing through direct branded representation

7. Transaction sales

8. Consultative sales

9. Complex sales

10. Consignment

11. Telemarketing or telesales

12. Retail or consumer

13. Traveling salesman

14. Door-to-door

15. To tourists on crowded beach

16. Request for proposal – An invitation for suppliers, through a bidding process, to submit a proposal on a specific product or service.
An RFP is usually part of a complex sales process, also known as enterprise sales.

17. Business-to-business – Business-to-business sales are much more relationship based owing to the lack of emotional attachment to the products in question.
Industrial/Professional Sales is selling from one business to another

18. Electronic

19. Web – Business-to-business and business-to-consumer

20. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) – A set of standard for structuring information to be electronically exchanged between and within businesses

21. Indirect, human-mediated but with indirect contact

22. Mail-order

23. Sales Methods:

24. Selling technique

25. SPIN Selling

26. Consultative selling

27. Sales enablement

28. Solution selling

29. Conceptual Selling

30. Strategic Selling

31. Sales Negotiation

32. Reverse Selling

33. Paint-the-Picture

34. Large Account Management Process

Sales agents

1. Sales broker or Seller agency or seller agent

§ This is a traditional role where the salesman represents a person or company on the selling end of the deal.[3]

2. Buyers broker or Buyer brokerage

§ This is where the salesman represents the consumer making the purchase. This is most often applied in large transactions.

3. Disclosed dual agent

§ This is where the salesman represents both parties in the sale and acts as a mediator for the transaction. The role of the salesman here is to over see that both parties receive an honest and fair deal, and is responsible to both.

4. Transaction broker

§ This is where the salesperson doesn't represent either party, but handles the transaction only. This is where the seller owes no responsibility to either party getting a fair or honest deal, just that all of the papers are handled properly.

5. Sales Outsourcing

§ This is direct branded representation where the sales reps are recruited, hired, and managed by an external entity but hold quotas, represent themselves as the brand of the client, and report all activities (through their own sales management channels) back to the client. It is akin to a virtual extension of a sales force. (see Sales Outsourcing entry)

6. Sales Managers

§ It is the goal of a qualified and talented sales manager to implement various sales strategies and management techniques in order to facilitate improved profits and increased sales volume. They are also responsible for coordinating the sales and marketing department as well as oversight concerning the fair and honest execution of the sales process by his agents.[4]

7. Salesmen

§ The primary function of professional sales is to generate and close leads, educate prospects, fill needs and satisfy wants of consumers appropriately, and therefore turn prospective customers into actual ones. The successful questioning to understand a customer's goal and requirements relevant to the product, the further creation of a valuable solution by communicating the necessary information that encourages a buyer to achieve their goal at an economic cost is the responsibility of the salesperson or the sales engine (e.g. internet, vending machine etc). A good salesman should never miss sell or over evaluate the customer’s requirements.

Scoring Sales

1. Telemarketing

2. CRM

3. Funnel Scorecard

4. Sales Lead Scoring

10 to Reach Top Goals

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1. Planning

2. Preparing

3. Paperwork

4. Prospect

5. Contact Customers

6. Limit Time

7. Meeting Agendas

8. Work By Appointment

9. Evaluate Every Activity

10. Anticipate Objections

32 - "Do Not Sell"

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1. Walking Away

2. Not Looking Customers in the Eye

3. Talking Too Much

4. Not Listening to Customers

5. Not Knowing Your Product

6. Not Being Organized

7. Getting Distracted

8. Selling Price Alone

9. Not Getting Proper Rest

10. Getting Flustered (Lack of Production)

11. Leaving Territory Too Quickly

12. Being Rude to Customers

13. Being Too Content

14. Maintaining Poor Hygiene

15. Pressuring Customers

16. Not Having Fun

17. Not Closing

18. Lacking a Powerful Introduction

19. Not Following Up With Customers

20. Not Having a Strong Mentality

21. Lacking Discipline

22. Not Handling Objections

23. Sounding Desperate

24. Having Poor Customer Service

25. Not Taking a Vacation

26. Misreading Customers

27. Lacking a Unique Sales Identity

28. Not Letting Yourself Be Known

29. Not Having Patience

30. Not Holding Yourself Accountable

31. Hitting on a Customer's Wife

32. Acting Like a Salesperson

7 steps to consultative selling

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The seller tries to understand and is mostly silent

1) Listen (to the customer / prospect situation and needs)

2) Clarify (ask questions)

3) Summarize (what the customer needs) to check that there is no misunderstanding

The seller leads the action

4) Propose (a solution that matches the detected needs)

5) Demonstrate (the advantages of the solution)

6) Welcome the objections (declare we understand them) and be prepared beforehand to answer them

7) Help the customer to decide (bring a sense of urgency)

Partner Service Opportunities

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According to Microsoft Partner Capacity Research, partner service opportunities for SIs and VARs around consulting development, integration, and maintenance for each specialization are expected to reach:

· Search: US$2 billion (and US$10 billion more for Search extensions to solutions)

· Data Visualization: US$3 billion

· Enterprise Project Management: US$5 billion

· Portals and Collaboration: US$15 billion

· Office Solutions Development: US$20 billion

· Business Intelligence: US$25 billion

· Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Forms: US$27 billion

· Office Deployment: US$31 billion

Predefined Alert Templates

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1. Alert templates are stored in the configuration database and are available at the Web application level.

2. Users can create alerts to notify them of changes to list items (item-level alerts), documents, lists (list-level alerts), or document libraries.

3. Alert templates are defined in Alerttemplates.xml.

4. When a user creates an alert, the alert definition enables the user to apply predefined filters.
For example, the user can create an alert only for items he or she created or last modified. Alerts can also be added for items that appear in certain views. Only some of the views are available as filters for alerts.

5. Alerttemplates.xml is located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\XML directory.

6. SharePoint includes a set of predefined alert templates. These alert templates are stored in Alerttemplates.xml.

7. Alerttemplates.xml defines the format, contents, and properties used to create alert messages from each list type Developers can customize alerts by modifying a copy of Alerttemplates.xml and then loading the customized alert templates by using the command stsadm -o updatealerttemplates.

8. Do not modify Alerttemplates.xml. Doing so may result in loss of functionality when upgrading or installing service packs.

9. Alert messages can be sent immediately or in a daily or weekly summary. Immediate alerts are not actually immediate; they are sent after a delay that is determined by the timer interval. This is done for performance reasons. The default timer interval is 5 minutes. Thus, if this interval is not changed, you could notice a delay of up to 5 minutes before an alert message is generated. Changes are recorded as they occur in an event log; alert messages are rendered from that log when the next timer job runs.

10. You can adjust the frequency of alerts by using the SharePoint object model. For an example of using the SPAlert class to iterate through the users of a site and update the alert frequency.

11. You can determine the default timer interval by using the STSADM command line utility. STSADM allows you to run commands from batch files or the Windows command line.
STSADM -o getproperty -pn job-immediate-alerts -url url

12. You can set the timer interval property by using STSADM. The following example sets the interval to 3 minutes:
STSADM -o setproperty -pn job-immediate-alerts -url url -pv "every 3 minutes"

Alert Template Name	Description
SPAlertTemplateType.GenericList	The first alert template in Alerttemplates.xml. GenericList is used unless there is a match to one of other event types.
SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary	Notification of changes in document libraries.
SPAlertTemplateType.Survey	Notification of changes in surveys.
SPAlertTemplateType.Links	Notification of changes in links.
SPAlertTemplateType.Announcements	Notification of changes in announcements.
SPAlertTemplateType.Contacts	Notification of changes in contacts.
SPAlertTemplateType.Events	Notification of changes in events.
SPAlertTemplateType.Tasks	Notification of changes in tasks.
SPAlertTemplateType.DiscussionBoard	Notification of changes in discussion boards.
SPAlertTemplateType.PictureLibrary	Notification of changes in picture libraries.
SPAlertTemplateType.XMLForm	Notification of changes in XML form.
SPAlertTemplateType.DataConnectionLibrary	Notification of changes in data connection libraries.
SPAlertTemplateType.AssignedtoNotification	Assigned to task list and issue list notifications.

Preview of default content placeholders in a SharePoint master page

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PlaceHolderGlobalNavigationSiteMap
Site map used by the global navigation breadcrumb

PlaceHolderGlobalNavigation
Global navigation breadcrumb

PlaceHolderSiteName
Site name

PlaceHolderSearchArea
Search box area

PlaceHolderTopNavBar
Top navigation area

PlaceHolderHorizontalNav
Top navigation menu for the page (defaults with the Home tab)

PlaceHolderPageImage
Page icon in the upper-left area of the page

PlaceHolderCalendarNavigator
Date-picker for navigating a calendar, when enabled

PlaceHolderTitleAreaSeparator
Displays shadows for the title area

PlaceHolderLeftNavBarDataSource
Data source for the left navigation menu

PlaceHolderLeftNavBarTop
Top of the left navigation area

PlaceHolderLeftNavBar
Left navigation area (contains the Quick Launch)

PlaceHolderLeftNavBarBorder
Border element on the left navigation bar

PlaceHolderLeftActions
Bottom of the left navigation area

PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea
Page title shown immediately below the breadcrumbs

PlaceHolderPageDescription
Description of the page contents

PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb
Main content breadcrumb area

PlaceHolderTitleLeftBorder
Left border of the title area

PlaceHolderTitleRightMargin
Right margin of the title area

PlaceHolderBodyLeftBorder
Border element for the main page body

PlaceHolderMain
Main content of the page

PlaceHolderBodyRightMargin
Right margin of the main page body

PlaceHolderMiniConsole
A place to show page-level commands (for example, the Edit Page, History, and Incoming Links WIKI commands)

WSSDesignConsole
The page editing controls when the page is in Edit Page mode

PlaceHolderNavSpacer
The width of the left navigation area

PlaceHolderFormDigest
The "form digest" security control

PlaceHolderUtilityContent
Extra content at the bottom of the page

SPNavigation
Used for additional page editing controls. (Empty by default in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.)

PlaceHolderBodyAreaClass
Additional body styles in the page header

PlaceHolderTitleAreaClass
Additional styles in the page header

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Introduction to Site Templates

Posted by Ramprasad Navaneethakrishnan on May 9, 2009

Sharepoint 2007 comes with some out-of-the-box site templates that allows Administrators or Information Workers to readily create sites by choosing one of the available templates that suites their requirement.

The out-of-the-box Site Templates available with Sharepoint 2007 are broadly classified into 4 categories as mentioned below.

Collaboration
Meeting
Enterprise
Publishing

Collaboration Templates

Team Site:

This site is for team members to collaborate on any tasks or projects. To facilitate this type of collaboration, it includes the following webparts

Document library : To manage documents associated with the task / project
Announcement List : Create / Manage announcements with the project team
Discussion Board : A forum to discuss on tasks / issues assocaited with the project
Calendar Lists : Keeps track of the various schedules associated with team members / project
Task Lists : A list that keeps track of task items assigned against members of the project
Links : A single place to keep track of links to sites that are needed for the project

Blank Site:

As the name suggests, its just a blank site with no webparts populated by default. This is a good place for building a fully customized site.

Document Workspace:

This template is suitable for a team documentation project or a team of technical writers where there is a need in creation and modification of common documentation.
It has the following webparts associated with it.

Document Library
Tasks List
Links

Blog Site:

A site for a team or person to post ideas and observations which site visitors can comment to.

Meeting Templates

Basic Meeting:

A general purpose meeting template that helps to plan, organize and capture the results of the meeting using the following webparts associated with the site

Objectives list
Attendies
Agenda
Document Library

Blank Meeting:

A blank meeting site that can be customized to suite the requirement

Decision Making Meeting:

This template is suitable when the purpose of the meeting is to reivew doucments, lists and other informations in order to make a decision. The webparts included are

Objectives list
Attendies
Agenda
Document Library
Tasks List
Decision List

Social Meeting:

This template comes handy when organizing a team picnic or party. The web elements included are

Attendies list
Directions
Image Log
Thing to bring List
Photo Library

MultiPage Meeting:

This is similar to Decision Making template but it is designed to accomodate complex decision process. This site comes with two webpages by default and it can accomodate upto 10 individual pages. It includes

Objective Lists
Attendies Lists
Agenda

Enterprise

Enterprise templates are normally used as a top-level or high-level sites in an organizations site collection. It facilitated enterprise level activities in the areas of document management, records management and report management

Document Center:

A Site to centrally manage enterprise level documents. It has several document management features enabled by default like Major / Minor versionaing, Require check out etc. This templates includes the following webparts.

Document Library
Relevant documents
Upcoming tasks
Treeview webpart

Records Center:

This site template is used to centrally manage organizations data and data sources. The webparts included are

Records vault
Records routing list
Information management policy
Unassigned Records library

Site Directory:

A site template for listing, categorizing important sites in the organizations site collection. The webparts included are

Categorized Sites
Top Sites
Site Map

Report Center:

This site template as part of Sharepoint business intelligence solution communicates metrics, goals, statues and business intelligence informations by means of the foll0wing web elements

Dashboards
KPI indicators
Webpages

Search Center:

A site that enables users to seach for information. It includes webparts

SearchResults
Advanced Search

Search Center with tabs:

This is similar to search center except it comes with two tabs. One tab to search through information in the sites and the other tab 'people' that enables to search through peoples.

Publishing

News Site:

A site for publising news articles and links to news articles. The default webparts includes
Sample news page
Archive for storing older news

Hope this is useful.

A post on creating custom templates can be found here

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